This paper presents a fast, robust and completely automatic technique for creating high dynamic range images of non-static scenes. The technique is based on probability maps. These maps are calculated with comparison function from sequences of hand-held photographs. In practice, several basic problems occur when taking an image sequence. First, the camera is moving which causes images to misali...

Exposure fusion is an efficient method for directly fusing multi-exposure images into a high-quality low dynamic range image, without the high dynamic range (HDR) production and tone mapping process. The previous exposure fusion methods only produced an image that contains a fixed amount of details, which can not satisfy further demands for more detail information. We introduce Local Laplacian ...

Expectations created by the early rapid developments in virtual organizations, hoping to resolve the main challenges in the area and continuous emergence of new related facilities are still far from full materialization. Being a multidisciplinary area that requires the participation of experts in ICT, theory of organizations, sociology, economy, law, etc., there is primarily a need for further ...

Facial motion cues facilitate identity and expression processing (Pilz, Thornton, & Bülthoff, 2006). To explore this dynamic advantage, we used Garner's speeded classification task (Garner, 1976) to investigate whether adding dynamic cues alters the interactions between the processing of identity and expression. We also examined whether facial motion affected women and men differently, given th...

This paper reports ongoing work in developing a query representation method for the implementation of dynamic and parallel query processing in database systems. We present Stream Processing based Query Representation | a concept derived from software engineering | as powerful approach, which covers query representation from high-level query declaration to low-level procedural (parallel) executi...

Describing actions entails that relations between objects are discovered. A pervasively neural account of this process requires that fundamental problems are solved: the neural pointer problem, the binding problem, and the problem of generating discrete processing steps from time-continuous neural processes. We present a prototypical solution to these problems in a neural dynamic model that com...

The concept of a spirally wrapped cell membrane as the mode of origin of the myelin sheath has made it difficult to explain (a) myelin sheath adjustment to growth of the axon in diameter and length, (b) the herniation and implied flexibility of the myelin sheath observed in normal fibers (1), (c) the ability of myelinated axons in tissue culture to lose and regain myelin in relatively rapid res...

The dynamic load balancing problem which can be defined as the effective redistribution of workload among the system processing units during execution time, is dynamic in nature where the load and the processing power of the system may change in time as units of work enter and leave the system and processing units are added to or removed from the processing pool. To address this problem, geneti...

Stanley Plog’s psychographics model was introduced in 1967 and has been widely accepted by various researchers and marketing companies. Plog’s main point was that travelers’ personality characteristics, or psychographics, are determinants of their travel patterns and preferences. The main objective of this study was to verify whether or not Plog’s model is flawed by defining travelers in terms ...